Rockstar Quotes

“Well, off the top, I’d say I have major trust issues. Fear of abandonment. And those issues come out in ways I don’t always understand completely. Sometimes, I push people away, when it’s the last thing I consciously want to do. And then I’m sad when they go away, as requested. Lovely, huh?”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“Dax leans into my ear again, “Fuck ’em all, baby. It’s us against the world.” “I love you so much, Dax.” “I love you, too, my beautiful wife. Forever and always.” He kisses me again, and then our baby, for good measure. And then I float off to the wings, feeling like three is a very lucky number, indeed.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“Are you kidding me? I’d love to write with you, Fish. Hell yeah.” Fish is beaming. “Cool. I’ve got some lyrics, too. Some weird shit I wanna bounce off you.” “Awesome. And just so you know, you’re a sick-ass bass player, Fish Head. Always have been. I wouldn’t want anyone else standing there with me every night.” “Word,” Colin says. “Same with you, Colinoscopy. You’re a sick-ass drummer beast, and I couldn’t do what I do without you, either.” Colin and Fish are both clearly moved. And so am I. On impulse, we all step into a huddle and put our hands in. We make stupid goat noises, ever so briefly, but they don’t make us laugh as usual. This time, they make our Adam’s apples bob.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“There’s no such thing as villains,” Colin says. “Just a whole bunch of people who are the heroes of their own fucked-up stories.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“I close my eyes. “When we were together, I was broken. I thought clutching onto you for dear life, and having you hold me so tight I couldn’t breathe, meant you were putting me back together. But the truth is you weren’t giving me enough space to glue my broken pieces back together. You were clutching me so tight, my pieces were being ground into sand.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“You need more security than Fish. Plus, I know you. You’re a homebody. You’re gonna want your place to be the hang-out.” “He’s right about that,” Keane says. “You don’t get FOMO, brah. You get JOMO.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“Sorry. I don’t know why I’m suddenly feeling emotional. Seeing your family just made me realize how screwed up my life has been. How much I’ve missed out on. And, if I’m being honest, it made me feel kind of insecure around you. Like, how could I possibly be right for someone like you, when you come from that kind of stability and love?”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“Lyrics. Oh my God. I pull out my phone and begin furiously jotting them down. Keane watches me for a moment. “Lyrics?” he says. “Mmm hmm.” “About Violet?” “Uh huh. Shh, Peenie.” “Oh, man, you’re a goner, aren’t you? In your world, a girl who inspires lyrics is even hotter than a girl who can suck an orange through a garden hose.” “Shut up, dude. I need to listen.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“And off my core group goes, exiting the dance floor in a slow-moving herd that wordlessly sweeps Violet along with us, like it’s already understood at a cellular level among my people: this girl is one of us now.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“In other words, Mom, your son is a horn dog,” Kat says. “Well, I already knew that. In kindergarten, he had three girlfriends, for Pete’s sake. That I knew of.” “Mom, please. This is not a conversation I want to be having with you.” I glare at Kat. “Thanks a lot, Kat.” Mom chuckles. “Oh, slow your roll, Dax. I’ve raised four kids before you—one of them Keane. Trust me, when it comes to boys and raging hormones, nothing shocks me anymore.” I grimace. “Please, Mom. Move along.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“Ryan scoffs. “I’ll never be able to see past the way he salivated over Tessa in Maui. If we lived in a different century, I’d be challenging Reed to a duel.” Colby laughs. “Tessa wasn’t even your girlfriend at the time. Dislike the guy all you want because he’s cocky or whatever, but I don’t think you can fairly hold it against him that he made a play for your wife before she was even your girlfriend.” “Tessa was already mine in Maui. She just didn’t know it yet.” Colby and I chuckle.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“Ryan chuckles. “Peenie is gonna show his peen? Wow, how meta.” “Meh, it’s just skin,” Keane says. “Yeah, foreskin,” Ryan says, and everyone laughs. “Do me a favor and show your balls, too,” I say to Keane. “You do that, and Mom would thank me for only showing my bare ass and simulating graphic fucking on a beach.” “I’ll tell my agent to put it in my contract,” Keane says. “Just for you.” “Thanks.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“Have you told Mom about the porno yet?” Colby asks. “No, and it’s not a porno, guys. The way it’s shot, it feels artistic. Like a cool sex dream, you know?” “Oh, well, we stand corrected,” Ryan says dryly. “Mom will totally get the distinction between a porno and a cool, artistic sex dream.” “Filmed in Europe,” Keane adds. “Maybe she won’t see the porno,” I say.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“I’m drowning in your stormy eyes, Violet Rhodes,” Dax whispers softly. “I’m drowning and I don’t want anyone to throw me a lifeline.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“I don’t get butterflies when you laugh.” He touches my thigh. “I get fireflies. I feel lit up from deep inside.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“Please say you’re not in any rush to get out of here. That you can stay the whole night with me and let me fuck you, over and over again, Lionel Richie Style?” I tilt my head. “Lionel Richie Style?” He grins. “‘All Night Long.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar

“Just make sure you always keep the embers of your own dreams burning,” Louise says. “In addition to being a wife and mother, a woman needs her own personal passions, separate from her role as wife and mother. Keeping your own dreams alive will ultimately be the thing that allows you to give the best of yourself to the people you love the most.”
― Lauren Rowe, Rockstar